288 ports. 288 APC bulkheads in the front which leads to a pigtail of 10-200 feet. I prefer loose tube and that is spliced to the 288 SASJ cable that goes ~19k feet up the road.
The pigtails are spliced to a can, 450b or 450c in our case. The LSX panel is a bit expensive, but I only by one per 288 in the building. It's just a no brainer to have that problem solved for a few bucks. Give me a shout if you want some pictures/video of what we're doing. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < [email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so you have like 72 SC connectors directly terminated on the end of a > 72-count cable, which goes to wherever a reasonable splice enclosure is. > I'm assuming this is relatively robust (as opposed to strands coming out > of a loose tube and being spliced in a splice tray, which lives in the back > of the splice panel). > > We used to do it at least somewhat this way (like 10+ years ago, when > counts were a lot lower), but staff at some point decided they wanted their > splices IN the patch bay, so we got all of these hokey slide-out splice > tray things, which are a PITA to deal with if you have a bad splice or > broken strand after you've got a pile of production circuits going through > the tray. > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM Carl Peterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Depending on whatever you want on the patch panel it's something like a >> 72 ct SCA to stub cable. SC APCs get patched in the panel and the tail >> goes to a splice case in a hand hole etc. For indoor we splice in a budi >> enclosure on the wall or just mount the splice case on the wall. >> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> How does that work in a "central office" style setup - i.e. a couple >>> hundred strands coming into a rack which need to be potentially patched to >>> each other, filters, SFP optical ports, etc? Are you talking about using >>> a pre-formed and terminated tail from a patch panel to a splice point >>> somewhere else? I.E. something like a MTP with a tail on the other side? >>> >>> We've always brought them from outside (or wherever they came from) up >>> the rear of a 2 post rack and then terminated them into a patch panel of >>> some sort. >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM Carl Peterson < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I prefer a tail to a splice case or splice cases. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm looking for a source/model/etc for fiber patch panels, which are >>>>> similar to those found in a comm room/meet me room/etc. I think these >>>>> might be called "distribution panels". >>>>> >>>>> Specifically, one designed to be mounted in a 2-post rack, with the >>>>> fixed plant cable/splicing all happening in the rear, and the patching all >>>>> happening in the front, and no need to unmount/move the patching in the >>>>> front if some splicing work needs to occur in the rear. That way, the >>>>> outside plant people can do their work in the rear without having to deal >>>>> with patches in the front. >>>>> >>>>> So far, almost everything I've seen tends to be either cassette-based, >>>>> where you do all the terminations and then somehow mount that in a rack, >>>>> but if you have to gain access to the splices again, you have to pull the >>>>> whole cassette out, OR the style where the entire splice tray and >>>>> connectors slide out the front - in which case you have to leave enough >>>>> slack or otherwise pay special attention to the patching for the slide-out >>>>> function to work after you have several patch cables plugged in. >>>>> >>>>> An ebay search for "adc fiber distribution panel" gives me some >>>>> examples of what I'm looking for, but they aren't exactly plentiful and I >>>>> also want to use something consistent. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> - Forrest >>>>> -- >>>>> AF mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Carl Peterson >>>> >>>> *PORT NETWORKS* >>>> >>>> 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 >>>> >>>> Baltimore, MD 21202 >>>> >>>> (410) 637-3707 >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> - Forrest >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Carl Peterson >> >> *PORT NETWORKS* >> >> 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 >> >> Baltimore, MD 21202 >> >> (410) 637-3707 >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > -- > - Forrest > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
-- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
